Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1105170042110.8277@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Pan
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 00:43:15 -0400 (EDT)
Pan Sometimes I just let these things run, as if they'd run forever; I then become a visitor and can appear, contrary to all desires, before my Work, as if it were that of Creation Herself. http://www.alansondheim.org/pan.mp4 "All motion is produced by visible or invisible power: by some cause which we perceive, or by some which is not the object of sense. "With all motions of the latter kind, we connect the idea of voluntary power; and such motions are in fact expressive to us of the exertion of power. Whether this association is the consequence of experience, or whether it is the effect of an original principle, it is not at present material to inquire. The instance of children, and even of animals, who uniformly infer life, where they perceive motion without any material cause, are sufficient evidence of the fact." Archibald Alison, Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Boston, 1812, from the Edinburgh edition of 1811, p. 310.